Full Meaning Research Articles

Development of a culturally informed tool to assess chronic pain for Māori: the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure-Aotearoa (PRISM-A)

Chronic pain is one of the most common long-term conditions in Aotearoa (New Zealand), and there is a higher prevalence and greater impact of pain for Māori (Indigenous People of New Zealand). Māori tend to have a more holistic interpretation of pain compared with western views; therefore, current assessments may not capture the full meaning and impact of pain for Māori. This study developed a holistic assessment tool for chronic pain in collaboration with Māori clinicians and Māori with chronic pain. The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure–Aotearoa (PRISM-A) is a verbal and visual assessment tool that is based on Te Ao Māori (Māori world), imbeds whakawhanaungatanga (relationship formation) between the patient and clinician, and incorporates Te Whare Tapa Whā, a Māori model of health. The tool is likely to provide a more meaningful assessment of pain and facilitate better outcomes for Māori with chronic pain.

Selection of third-party logistics in supply chain finance under probabilistic complex hesitant fuzzy sets and distance measures

Financial institutions attach great importance to the multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) problems of selecting an effective third-party logistics (3PL) service provider in supply chain finance. A suitable 3PL service provider can not only assist financial institutions in carrying out supply chain finance activity but can also replace financial institutions in supervising the operation of a target financing supply chain, therefore minimizing financial institutions' operating risks. However, there is no sufficient study on the selection of a 3PL service provider. Hence, the objective of this paper is to establish an innovative concept of the “probabilistic complex hesitant fuzzy set” (PCHFS), which is a hybrid structure of the complex hesitant fuzzy set and the probabilistic fuzzy set to manage complex information in real-decision theory. This paper examines the periodicity of probabilistic fuzzy information and extends the range from [0,1] to the unit disc in the complex plane to provide more ability to describe the full meaning of the information in a mathematical model. Based on the internal structure of the set and to find the degree of discrimination between the pairs of PCHFSs, the generalized distance measures and modified generalized distance measures are defined. Several properties and their relationships between them are derived in detail. Also, several cases of the proposed measures are exposed, which reduces them to the existing studies. Furthermore, based on these proposed measures, a multiple-attribute decision-making (MADM) approach is established in an uncertain environment, and several numerical examples are given to examine the feasibility and validity of the explored measures. Finally, the modified and parameterized distance measures based on PCHFSs are verified by comparing them with some existing measures.

SOME PECULIARITIES OF THE INTERNET ABBREVIATIONS FORMATION

Nowadays many shortenings which can be found in different spheres of life and they are predictable as a result of scientific, international integration processes in economics development. As a result the problem of new realia naming appears. Most of such names in Englishappear on the bases of word combinations or complex words that give a chance to reflect necessary features of this or that notion in its full meaning and accuracy. To simplify these long words and word combinations abbreviation as one of the ways of shortening is used. Sometimes a term is shortened to only one main component, sometimes abbreviations and other types of shortening can be used.The aim of the article is to show Internet abbreviations as one of the most popular type of shortenings in English and to dwell upon such questions as what information is fixed by Internet abbreviations, what are the ways of their introduction into the text, what main functionsthey have, and how abbreviations of such a type are built up.

Theory of Cognition and Practical Interest in Kant: on the Distinction Between Appearance and Thing in Itslef

The article examines the significance of the distinction between phenomena and things in themselves for the foundation of Kantian practical reason. It holds that this distinction acquires its full meaning and the entire gamut of its validity only in the sphere of practical reason. In this way, it attempts to show that the Kantian epistemological distinctions and the fundamental steps in the construction of the Critique of Pure Reason are at the same time strategies to support practical reason, thus driven by an emphatically “practical interest”.

On a continuation of quaternionic and octonionic logarithm along curves and the winding number

This paper deals with the problem of finding a continuous extension of the hypercomplex (quaternionic or octonionic) logarithm along (quaternionic or octonionic) paths which avoid the origin. The main difficulty depends upon this fact: while a branch of the complex logarithm can be defined in a small open neighbourhood of a strictly negative real point, no continuous branch of the hypercomplex logarithm can be defined in any open set which contains a strictly negative real point. To overcome this difficulty, we use the logarithmic manifold introduced in [4]: in general, the existence of a lift of a path to this manifold is not guaranteed and, indeed, the problem of lifting a path to the logarithmic manifold is completely equivalent to the problem of finding a continuation of the hypercomplex logarithm along this path.The second part of the paper scrutinizes the existence of a notion of winding number (with respect to the origin) for hypercomplex loops that avoid the origin, even though it is known that the definition of winding number for such loops is not natural in Rn when n is greater than 2. The surprise is that, in the hypercomplex setting, the new definition of winding number introduced in this paper can be given and has full meaning for a large class of hypercomplex loops (untwisted loops with companion that avoid the origin).Finally an original but rather natural notion of homotopy for these hypercomplex loops (the c-homotopy) is presented and it is proved to be suitable to comply with the intrinsic geometrical meaning of the winding number for this class of loops, namely, two such hypercomplex loops are c-homotopic if, and only if, they have the same winding number.

A Metric Fixed Point Theorem and Some of Its Applications

A general fixed point theorem for isometries in terms of metric functionals is proved under the assumption of the existence of a conical bicombing. It is new for isometries of convex sets of Banach spaces as well as for non-locally compact CAT(0)-spaces and injective spaces. Examples of actions on non-proper CAT(0)-spaces come from the study of diffeomorphism groups, birational transformations, and compact Kähler manifolds. A special case of the fixed point theorem provides a novel mean ergodic theorem that in the Hilbert space case implies von Neumann’s theorem. The theorem accommodates classically fixed-point-free isometric maps such as those of Kakutani, Edelstein, Alspach and Prus. Moreover, from the main theorem together with some geometric arguments of independent interest, one can deduce that every bounded invertible operator of a Hilbert space admits a nontrivial invariant metric functional on the space of positive operators. This is a result in the direction of the invariant subspace problem although its full meaning is dependent on a future determination of such metric functionals.

Moral Theology

“Moral Theology” is theology in this narrower sense. It proceeds in the light of faith, with constant reference to Scripture and other authoritative expressions of the Church’s faith. “Interpretation” refers to systematic efforts to facilitate communication and overcome misunderstandings. This is where theology as we commonly understand it begins. The theological interpreter tries to find and state the true and full meaning of texts of Scripture and other authoritative expressions of the Church’s faith. This is the task of the part of theology called “positive theology”.

Устойчивое развитие как инструмент обеспечения благополучия жизни человека (публично-правовые аспекты)

The article notes that formal articulation of sustainable development takes place in the full semantic meaning identical to that of international acts or, for lack of a better word, segmentary (primarily in terms of economic and environmental aspects). The author points out that differentiated forms of regulation of sustainable development show diversity, dynamism and ability to adapt to various legal systems. However, it is emphasized that there still remain unavoidable risks of devaluation of sustainable development. The favorable breeding ground for the origination of such risks appears due to differentiated approaches towards the value scale for the assessment of priorities of the correlation of economic growth goals, tasks and ratios, environmental policy angle, social development paths.

Contribution of Co-operatives on Women Empowerment

Abstract Cooperatives provide financial and social intermediaries, particularly for women and the underprivileged. Microcredit, micro savings, micro insurance, and micro remittance are among the financial services offered by cooperatives. The simple services of cooperatives attracted backward women, which may have pushed women in that direction. The empowerment of women has been identified by the researcher as the new horizon in this article. When women are empowered, they are independent, enjoy unrestricted movement, and can participate freely in the sectors and fields of their choice. When women achieve economic, social and political strength, the concept of empowerment acquires its full meaning. In this view, the investigation and identification of the role cooperatives have played in raising social and economic status are the main objectives of the study. In order to ensure the study's validity from a review of the literature, data from interviews with members of the Opi Saving and Credit Co-operative in Kirtipur Municipality Ward No. 6 in the Kathmandu District were used as a sample. There are 136 respondents in the sample. According to the study's findings, the co-operative's benefits to women have improved their incomes and raised their standard of life. As a result of their participation, communication, fund management discussions, cooperative power, and accountability, the study's member co-operative women are growing more physically and cognitively engaged.

Representasi Kritik Sosial dalam Animasi Tekotok Edisi Maret-Agustus 2021

This research focuses on the social criticism contained in the March-August 2021 Edition of Tekotok Animation by taking five episodes in it. The formulation of the problem in this study is how to represent social criticism contained in the March-August 2021 Edition of the Tekotok animation with the aim of identifying and knowing the full meaning that shows social criticism in predetermined episodes. Using a qualitative method with Ferdinand De Saussure’s semiotic analysis as the analytical knife. The results of this study provide a conclusion that animation is also able to represent something around it. The social criticism resulting from this animation refers to several cases of legal inequality and violations of norms in society. This broadcast serves as a reminder in the form of criticism and satire which is neatly packaged so that people are able to accept it well, not forced and as it is.

Основания теории предпринимательской коллаборации

The term “collaboration” as an economic concept is not yet widely used in Russian management theory and practice. However, anything new or relatively new requires exploration, understanding, and presentation in scientific works to contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge. In our view, collaboration, although well-known abroad, has not yet found its rightful place in the Russian management tradition. The semantic content of the definition of collaboration needs clarification, as the term is often equated with partnership, cooperation, and other similar concepts. The term may even be negatively perceived due to its association with the word “collaborationism”, which is not a correct identification. Moreover, a literal translation of this term from English does not convey the full meaning inherent in the concept. The character of collaboration institutionalization is an important aspect of recognizing it as an economic system, both through the lens of managerial decisions and joint value creation. Equally important is the distinction between formal and informal collaboration, as well as the consideration and study of the collaboration lifecycle in combination with the duality of its purpose. This article aims to fill this gap. In the RINC (elibrary.ru), 610 publications were found using the keyword “collaboration” (accessed on 01.11.2023) in the field of 06.00.00 “Economics. Economic Sciences”.

Named entities, naming practices, and their meanings – linguistic types and cultural contexts

Abstract Although names exist in all languages of the world, their formal and functional manifestations show great diversity. Due to their embeddedness in socio-cultural and historical contexts, an anthropological-linguistic approach that brings together linguistic and cultural facts is required to capture the full meaning of names and naming practices. Overall, names are given to entities of cultural importance and of significance for humans in social life; name usage and name-giving practices reflect social beliefs and cultural values; and their meaning is strongly shaped by cultural and historical contexts. This paper provides a typological, cross-linguistic overview of named entities, kinds of naming practices, and types of meanings associated with names, name giving, and name usage, which are illustrated with numerous examples from Australia, Europe, and Africa. Therefore, it also offers a structural framework for the contributions in this issue.

Imagining Eastern Europe - representations of Eastern Europe in 21st century French Vampire bandes dessinées

ABSTRACT In the process of forging (Western) modernity, Eastern Europe has been constructed as an uncivilised Other of the West. The Vampire Narrative was created to represent the divide between ‘us’ and ‘the others’, including the fundamental divide between West and non-West. It has evolved over the years, reflecting the processes of inclusion. This article demonstrates that the political inclusion (into the European Union) of some countries of Eastern Europe (self-called ‘Central European’) has not actually led to the cultural inclusion of Eastern Europe in the social Western European imagery. To discover the full meanings of the 21st-century French Vampire Narrative, the study employs a complementary combination of structural analysis, deconstruction, and resistant reading. Vampire bandes dessinées (BDs) are chosen as research material due to their popularity in French culture and their two-dimensionality as graphic and literary works. The chosen analytic corpus encompasses remediations and adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, diverse versions of Vlad Dracula Tepes’ (hi)story, and perfectly new vampire tales. The representation of Eastern Europe in BDs reveals itself to be surprisingly in line with the 19th-century Vampire Narrative: Eastern Europe is a disturbing, un-real, exotic space of radical Otherness or an in-between ‘Secondary Empire’.

Contemporary Significane of Iqbal’s Thought in Modren Neodemographic Content

After the 2nd Word War, the United States emerged as a new super power and planned indirect political, economical and cultural rule instead of direct control. For this purpose the European Countries under its rule gathered to form a “Neo-Colonial System” and laid foundation of some institutions like IMF, WTO and World Bank. Today, these institutions have become the arms of imperial powers and the policies of weaker countries are controlled by international aids, provision of loans, investment facilities and technological advancement. The same imperialist spirit of Kippling “White Man’s Burdon” is seen in the ideas of Fokoyamha and Hitington. This neo-imperialism is built on the ideas like cultural hegemony, capitalism and political oppression. Allama Iqbal is a great Muslim figure of the 20th century who is remembered as a representative of anti-colonialism. His poetry and prose is an expression of different aspects of anti-colonialism. In his creations, the intensity of passion along with the intellectual and spiritual depth has been present in the highest degree. This is the sign of the living thinker that the meanings of his thoughts unfold over time. Even today, his universal thought can be a beacon for us against neo-colonialism with its full contemporary meanings.

On the Value of Explicit Instruction: The View from Sociocultural Theory

This article provides a theoretical and empirical argument in support of explicit language instruction. It proposes on theoretical grounds that certain features of a language are sufficiently complex and subtle that learners are unlikely to be able to decipher their full conceptual meaning on the basis of exposure alone. It further proposes that the kind of explicit instruction that has been assumed in much of SLA research—based on structural rules of thumb—is inappropriate and that an alternative approach, grounded in principles of sociocultural theory is an effective means of promoting development, which in the theory calls for both explicit conceptual knowledge and extensive and intensive communicative practice. The approach, or model, is referred to as Concept-based Language Instruction (C-BLI). Empirical support for explicit instruction using C-BLI is derived from pedagogical studies using the model. In addition, evidence from L2 neuroscience ERP research is considered as well as evidence from cultural evolution. The principles of C-BLI are compared to those supporting Dynamic Usage-Based instruction which emerges from L2 research informed by Complex Dynamic Systems Theory.

Analog to Digital and Back Again: The Rhetoric of Graffiti

While current approaches to theorizing rhetorical circulation often designate digital rhetorics as their object of study, this designation unintentionally closes off rhetorical inquiry. Analog, material rhetorics, like graffiti, resemble digital rhetoric in the circulation of their rhetorical effects. The study of graffiti rhetorics therefore invites a recursive application of theoretical models of rhetorical circulation. By analyzing examples of bathroom graffiti collected from a large college campus, this essay seeks to inform fresh models of rhetorical circulation that more fully account for the many diverse and interrelated systems from which the full meaning of any one instance of rhetoric is derived.

Sustainable operation? Measuring the actual consumption of a hybrid car and determining its consumption curve

Sustainability is one of the most commonly used terms concerning renewable energy, environmental protection and energy management. Without a doubt, understanding its full meaning, it is clear that sustainability is paramount for the quality of life of future generations and for the Earth as a living space. The presented work aims to give an overview of the importance of on-board management in hybrid vehicles as an important tool to increase their contribution to sustainable mobility. Real-world condition measurements were carried out based on the available cognitive features of an average vehicle. Several main consumers were also tested to present their role within cognitive and sustainable mobility. Results show that there is a function between the battery load level and the hybrid vehicle electric power use likeliness. Among the primary but under-addressed concerns today are the uninhibited exploitation of non-renewable energy sources and the avoidance of pollution.

A Case Study of the Subtitle of Yao-Chinese Folktales: From the Perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis

With the rapid development of information today, people's way of communication has undergone tremendous changes. Language is no longer the only way for people to communicate. From the perspective of social semiotics, language symbols in the process of meaning construction no longer occupy an absolute dominant position. Images, sounds, gestures, animation, color, and other non-verbal social symbols in the ideogram process play an important role. Thus, the isolated study of a sign mode can not explain the full meaning of the discourse. It is in this context that multimodal discourse analysis emerged. Film or television works are not only pure texts but also contain color, music, performance, etc., which make the multimodal characteristics more obvious and constitute the multimodal discourse of subtitle translation. Therefore, studying subtitle translation from the perspective of multimodality could evaluate the quality of translation in a more comprehensive way. Starting from this perspective, this paper applies Zhang Delus theoretical framework of multimodal discourse analysis to analyze the subtitle translation of Yao-Chinese Folktales from four dimensions: culture, context, content, and expression, to understand the influence of multimodal on subtitle translation.

Humanised care in acute psychiatric hospitalisation units: Definition, values and strategic initiatives from the perspective of persons with mental health problems, primary carers and professionals.

Humanised care refers to the holistic approach to the person, considering their bio-psycho-social and behavioural dimensions. It becomes more complex when the person has mental health problems that may affect his or her will, cognition and relationship to the world. The literature on the humanisation of mental health is scarce and only offers the view of professionals. To analyse the concept, values and strategic initiatives of humanised care in acute psychiatric units from the perspective of persons with mental health problems, carers and professionals. Qualitative grounded-theory approach. Data were collected through focus groups and in-depth interviews among persons with mental health problems, carers and professionals. Thirteen focus groups and three in-depth staff interviews were performed, with a total of 61 participants. Humanised care is defined as quality care of an individualised, ethical and safe nature, empowering persons/carers to involve them in their health process, helping them resist the stigma of mental illness through a therapeutic relationship, bond and communication. Formal training, teamwork and effective communication are required. Six values and strategic initiatives were identified. Each value and strategic initiatives acquires full meaning when connected with the rest. Without this interconnection, humanised care would be impossible.

S3-4 Social prescription: a meaning for general medicine in Belgium? A qualitative exploration with patients and healthcare providers about the physical literacy counselling program

Abstract Purpose In a society where the population is aging and chronic diseases are more and more present, social determinants of health occupy a growing place in primary care medicine. As the demand for holistic care is growing, the bio-psycho-social model takes on its full meaning within primary health care.(1) The “social prescribing” model, introduced in many countries in recent years, allows the integration of non-medical care into the primary health care system without overburdening the health professional. (2) Social prescribing enables general practitioners and others primary care professionals to refer people to a range of non clinical services to support their health such as the intervention of physical activity specialists. Methods This study defines social prescribing and discusses successful aspects and challenges of the model in targeted prescription of physical activity. It also evaluates a pilot project set up in Belgium in 2022 to test the model. The pilot project aimed at promoting, through doctors and physiotherapists of the medical center, the orientation of patients to physical literacy counselling meetings leaded by a specialized physical educator. The purpose of this study was then to explore, qualitatively, patients and staff of a medical center about their opinion over a physical literacy counselling program. Interviews of patients and healthcare providers were undertaken during this project. Results The strengths of the pilot project developed include successful implementation of holistic patient-centered care, strengthening of patients’ mental and physical well-being alongside empowering their health. In addition, the project successfully foster preventive care and demonstrates how primary care may transform into primary health care. However, many challenges remain including the sustainability of the model itself, the availability of the services offered, the financial support and the low commitment of doctors and patients. Conclusions this study highlights first guidelines to introduce the model into the practice of primary healthcare in Belgium. Although the project shows limitations, the theoretical model remains promising and opens up new potential horizons for the practice of general medicine in Belgium. Funding Source This study received no external funding.